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Seven persons met in the home of David Nickens on July 13, 1824 for the purpose of organizing a Negro Baptist Church. The Church was organized under the name of the First Anti-Slavery Baptist Church of Chillicothe, Ohio. The founders were David Nickens, Ruth Nickens, Naomi Nickens, Serena Carter-Nickens, O.N.J. Nickens, James Wilkerson and Fredman Jackson. David Nickens, Having expressed a call...